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Brush with death: a social history of lead poisoning
Christian Warren
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Frontmatter
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List of Figures and Tables (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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INTRODUCTION What's Lead in the Bone (page 1)
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ONE Plumbing the Depths (page 13)
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TWO Childhood Lead Poisoning before 1930 (page 27)
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THREE Toxic Purity: How the United States Became a Nation of White-Leaders (page 44)
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FOUR Occupational Lead Poisoning in the Progressive Era (page 64)
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FIVE Protecting Workers and Profits in the Lead Industries (page 84)
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SIX Company Doctors on the Job (page 101)
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SEVEN Introducing Leaded Gasoline (page 116)
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EIGHT Defining Childhood Lead Poisoning as a Disease of Poverty (page 134)
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NINE Urban Physicians Discover the Silent Epidemic (page 152)
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TEN The Screaming Epidemic (page 178)
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ELEVEN Facing the Consequences of Leaded Gasoline (page 203)
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TWELVE The Rise and Fall of Universal Childhood Lead Screening (page 224)
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THIRTEEN Regulating "Low-Level" Lead Poisoning (page 244)
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APPENDIX Reports on Lead Poisoning (page 259)
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Notes (page 263)
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Index (page 349)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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BHR | 76.2 (Summer 2002): 396-397 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4127863 |
JHB | 34.1 (Spring 2001): 221-223 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4331654 |
ENVH | 6.2 (Apr. 2001): 314-315 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3985094 |
JAH | 88.3 (Dec. 2001): 1144-1145 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2700520 |
ISIS | 92.3 (Sep. 2001): 635 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3080794 |
JSocH | 35.2 (Winter 2001): 509-511 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3790227 |
AHR | 106.3 (June 2001): 1012-1013 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2692429 |
BHM | 75.4 (Winter 2001): 823-825 | https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/v075/75.4sellers.html |
JHMAS | 56.4 (Oct. 2001): 430-431 | https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_medicine_and_allied_sciences/v056/56.4corn.html |
JHPPL | 27.2 (Apr. 2002): 325-328 | https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_health_politics_policy_and_law/v027/27.2stradling.html |
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Published: 2001
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- 9780801868207 (paper)
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